Before.. special various reading called Sevir (App-34) reads "For the sons of".
Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton App-6), calling our attention to these three. They were descended from Rachel, and marched together in the rear (Numbers 2:18). As Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun marched in the van, the Ark (the symbol of God's presence) led them as. Shepherd (Psalms 78:13; Psalms 78:52.John 10:4; John 10:5).
Verse Psalms 80:2. _BEFORE EPHRAIM AND BENJAMIN AND MANASSEH_] It is supposed that these three tribes represent the whole, Benjamin being incorporated with Judah, Manasseh comprehending the country be...
BEFORE EPHRAIM, AND BENJAMIN, AND MANASSEH - Ephraim and Manasseh were the two sons of Joseph, and their names were given to two of the tribes of Israel. See the notes at Psalms 78:67. They seem to ha...
Psalms 80 Looking to Heaven for Help Through the Man at His Right Hand _ 1. Calling to the Shepherd (Psalms 80:1)_ 2. The ruin of His inheritance (Psalms 80:5) 3. The Man of the right hand ...
LXXX. THEN AND NOW. THE MESSIANIC HOPE. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly (Psalms 80:1) and then under the figure of a vine (Psalms 80:8). It is divided into strophes by the re...
A prayer for the restoration of God's favour to His people....
Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh were united by the tie of common descent from Jacob's beloved wife Rachel, who is regarded by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:15) as the mother of the Northern Kingdom, and they...
BEFORE EPHRAIM, &C.— That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three in some sense included the whole; _Benjamin_ being incorporated with Judah; _Mana...
PSALMS 80 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer for the Flock and Vine of Israel. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 80:1-3, By Three Significant Titles, Jehovah is besought to interpose for Salvation, before Three Sig...
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. BEFORE EPHRAIM AND BENJAMIN AND MANASSEH - i:e., advancing at their head, as formerly thou didst advance in the...
EPHRAIM.. BEN JAMIN.. MANASSEH] These three tribes were the descendants of Rachel. They encamped together in the wilderness, and followed immediately after the tabernacle when Israel was marching (Num...
This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies (Psalms 80:1). Their past history is recalled unde...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ MAKE US UNITED PSALMS 80 Jesus said, "I pray for the people that will believe in me … that they may be united. Then the world will believe that you sent me". ...
BEFORE EPHRAIM... — The tribes named from Joseph’s sons and his uterine brother naturally range together; they encamped side by side on the west of the Tabernacle, and when the ark moved forward they...
_[Psalms 80:3]_ לִ פְנֵ֤י אֶפְרַ֨יִם ׀ וּ בִנְיָ֘מִ֤ן...
Psalms 80:1 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it have been...
“TURN US AGAIN, O GOD” Psalms 80:1 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with great longin...
Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described be...
These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people should be as conspicuous, as the pillar of cloud had been in t...
In Psalms 80 it is remarkable how we are upon the ground of Israel here, their past or future historical associations, not Christ (though all depends on Him, of course) or the godly Jew in the midst o...
BEFORE EPHRAIM, BENJAMIN, AND MANASSEH, STIR UP THY STRENGTH,.... Which Christ did in the public ministry of the word, speaking as one having authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharisees; and in th...
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us. Ver. 2. _Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh_] These three tribes went next after the ark, when it removed,...
_Before Ephraim_, &c. That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three, indeed, in some sense included the whole, Benjamin being incorporated with Juda...
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, these three tribes, associated also Numbers 2:18, being named as representatives of Israel, in marching next to the Ark of the Covenant under the leadership o...
PRAYER FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THE CHURCH. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn referr...
COME AND SAVE US: _ Heb._ come for salvation to us...
1-7 He that dwelleth upon the mercy-seat, is the good Shepherd of his people. But we can neither expect the comfort of his love, nor the protection of his arm, unless we partake of his converting gra...
i.e. Before all the tribes of Israel; for whom he mentions only these three tribes, either, 1. Because of their special relation to Joseph here named, PSALMS 80:1; Ephraim and Manasseh being his sons...
Psalms 80:2 Before H6440 Ephraim H669 Benjamin H1144 Manasseh H4519 up H5782 (H8786) strength H1369 come H3212 ...
Psalms 80:1. _Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strengt...
CONTENTS: The tokens of God's favor besought and the former blessings cited as a basis for present deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: There is no obtaining favor with God until we are c...
Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salva...
_Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up Thy strength, and come and save us._ For understanding of this verse we must remember that, when the ark of the covenant rested, or marched, in the wi...
_Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock._ THE ALMIGHTY IN RELATION TO ERRING MAN I. As a shepherd (Psalms 80:1). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for all Is...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:1. This is a community lament for a situation in which the people have received hard treatment from the Gentiles. It asks God to “restore us, let your face shine that we...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth_.” On “_Shoshannim_” see Introduction to Psalms 45. Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘in t...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing (Psalms 80:1, Psalms...
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine foRuth (Psalms 80:1). God's dwelling between the cherubim. Actually, in the book...
Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 33:22; Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 42:14; Numbers 10:22
Before Ephraim — Here is an allusion to the ancient situation of the tabernacle in the wilderness, where these tribes were placed on the west — side of the tabernacle, in which the ark was, which cons...